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Bluehost has been empowering people to build and grow their online presence since 2003. As a leading web hosting provider trusted by over 5 million WordPress users worldwide, we specialize in making it easy to create, launch, and scale WordPress websites. With innovative tools, expert guidance, and powerful hosting solutions, Bluehost is your partner in building a professional online brand—without boundaries.


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Bluehost Reviews Summary

The overall reputation of the company reflects a mix of positive and negative sentiments. Customers frequently praise the reliability of the hosting services, user-friendly interface, and the quality of customer support, particularly highlighting the helpfulness and professionalism of staff during technical issues. However, concerns arise regarding inconsistent customer service experiences, with some customers reporting inadequate product knowledge among representatives and communication gaps during service upgrades. Overall, while many users express satisfaction and loyalty, there is a clear need for improvement in training support staff and enhancing proactive communication with clients.

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Minnesota
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I am giving one star because I HATE BEING ASKED FOR FEEDBACK AND UPSOLD EVERY TIME I LOGIN TO WORK ON MY WEBSITE. Never, ever ever, show me this popup again. Thanks and just stop.

Date of experience: April 1, 2024
Illinois
1 review
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The response time I received has greatly improved since I've been a customer. I expect amazing things in the near future

Date of experience: April 1, 2024
New York
2 reviews
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A lot of technical issues trying to establish a simple blog.

Date of experience: April 1, 2024

It's just not user friendly interface and customer...
September 9, 2023
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It's just not user friendly interface and customer service was difficult to understand due to the communication gap. They weren't helpful or friendly last I called. So I stepped away for a few months. Back to try it again especially since I paid for it.

Date of experience: August 10, 2023
California
1 review
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Date of experience: April 1, 2024
Bermuda
1 review
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I am not able to get the help I need to set up my email. I am having issues sending emails and there is nothing on the site to assist me.

Date of experience: April 1, 2024
Pennsylvania
1 review
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Pretty tight
April 11, 2024

Pretty tight. A little slow on support but better than most

Date of experience: April 1, 2024
Canada
1 review
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The dashboard can be quite crowded
April 11, 2024

The dashboard can be quite crowded. There is a lot to know about setting up a site, copyright, plugins needed, and the cost of plugins.

Date of experience: April 1, 2024
Virginia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Customer service is great, the actual hosting is rather rubbish. Hundreds of dollars for slow service that is constantly malfunctioning.

Date of experience: April 1, 2024
Virginia
1 review
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Better than expected service
April 11, 2024

The agent went beyond the call of duty to help me out with my issue. I was truly amazed at her friendliness, care, and concern, and the ability to resolve the problem. I've always loved you guys, but now I love you even more.

Date of experience: April 1, 2024
Arizona
2 reviews
2 helpful votes
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My experience with BlueHost has been incredibly frustrating. Despite over 8 calls for assistance regarding the same issue, a persistent malware issue on my site, the support team repeatedly assured me that my site was clear after their scans, which was actually not the case. This oversight resulted in potential clients being redirected away from my site for months. Although a credit was offered as compensation, it doesn't equate to the potential business lost or the time and stress involved in resolving the issue myself. I expected a more thorough and proactive approach to securing my website security and customer service.

Date of experience: April 1, 2024
Colorado
1 review
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The platform is not user friendly and I am having a terrible time getting my website set up.

Date of experience: April 1, 2024
Michigan
1 review
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Still have an issue for over a month with setting up additional accounts for access along with cpanel direct accounts, your support said they are aware and i just hope for an e-mail back...mean while this has delayed transfer of web site...also your account protection/privacy that says.99 per year but you want to bull me $15 looks like someone has trouble with math.

Date of experience: April 1, 2024
Virginia
1 review
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It is slow, hard to use, and just not as good as others. Sorry for the bad rating, guys.

Date of experience: April 1, 2024
Missouri
1 review
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I have had an issue and followed up AT LEAST TWENTY TIMES NOW to have it unresolved. I am so tired of this.

Date of experience: April 1, 2024
Virginia
1 review
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It is so hard to know how to navigate the site where to go to find how many sites are active what the keck I'm paying for and it is always confusing when I get an email telling me that I need to buy this or that or upgrade to this or that

Date of experience: April 1, 2024
Colorado
1 review
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The online Chat function isn't working. I enter a message and the message text disappears, saying Please Enter Your Message, over and over again.

Date of experience: April 1, 2024
Canada
1 review
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It's easy to get a nice-looking website online with very little time, so I can spend more time creating content to post instead of worrying about web design. Very user friendly. The only thing I don't like is how much it costs to renew after the initial great price.

Date of experience: April 1, 2024
Canada
1 review
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Very very poor service
April 11, 2024

Very very poor service. Your tech support has not restored by site secondchanceinc.ca
Please do not do business with Site lock they are the worst hackers Ive known off in the recent 3 yrs. We have enjoyed 18 years of business with blue host but ever since your partnership with site lock, they keep hacking the system at least twice in the year to ensure the website is down. Getting them to restore the site takes more than a week.

Please dont tell me that virus come from Aliens. They dont. So lets not get stupid with your reply to me.

Site lock has deliberate hackers that will try to pretend there is a virus so they can justify the payment of $700 plus per year.

We are not IT people we are a non profit agency and this has been going on for 3 to 4 years consistantly. Look at the reviews on site lock they are making money for blue host. That is quite obvious but they are also destroying business.

I have enjoyed a very good relationship with blue host for so many years. But because site lock was hacking our system, we got a new service provider.

I feel they are destroying the blue host brand.

Date of experience: April 1, 2024
Mississippi
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I have found the website builder to be difficult to use and navigate. The email hosting has been full of issues as well that are unresolvable by tech support.

Date of experience: April 1, 2024
France
1 review
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It has been more than 2 weeks and more than 3 times that we contact you, that I am trying to solve and issue witout any good results. I am not happy with your customer service.

Date of experience: April 1, 2024